Rural Municipality of Argyle

• Baldur
• Glenora
• Greenway
• Neelin

In August 1880, two men from the New Iceland region of Manitoba, Sigurdur Kristofersson (or Chistopherson) and Kristjan Jonsson, set out westward to see their friend who had settled in Pilot Mound. On their way, Kristofersson and Jonsson came across an area of rolling prairie grass with small lakes which had no settlers besides two men who lived in a tent.{{Cite web |title=Our Heritage |url=https://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/virtualmanitoba/argyleheritage/Grund/2origins.html |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=www.mhs.mb.ca}}

Kristofersson filed entry for the first homestead in what would later become the RM of Argyle. He named his farm {{Lang|is|Grund}}, Icelandic for 'grassy plain'. Kristofersson was soon joined by several other families, and made several trips back to Iceland, encouraging many fellow Icelanders to immigrate to his new homeland.

The rural municipality was incorporated on 15 August 1881 and is named after John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, who was the fourth Governor General of Canada.{{Cite web |title=Manitoba Communities: Argyle (Rural Municipality) |url=https://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/municipalities/argyle.shtml |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=www.mhs.mb.ca}}

On July 26, 1885, a new congregation named Frelsis ('Liberty') was formed. In 1889, the congregation erected its Lutheran Church at Grund.

Also in 1889, in response to the Northern Pacific and Manitoba Railway's proposal of a line that would pass through the centre of Argyle to link Morris with Brandon, the towns of Greenway and Belmont were established. However, this left a large stretch of land without service.

With significant demand for a station to be located between Greenway and Belmont, the town of Baldur was established in 1890.[https://rmofargyle.ca/Home/DownloadDocument?docId=cfd6018a-5378-46e6-9df4-515432d8b909 We Made Baldur: Notable People from Baldur's Past]. Argyle Museum Heritage Advisory Group.

On March 16, 1906, a portion of Argyle was divided into the Rural Municipality of Strathcona, later forming the RM of Prairie Lakes.

Between 1964 and 1965, the Frelsis congregation joined Baldur Immanuel Lutheran Church. With the Frelsis building being the oldest-standing Icelandic Lutheran Church in Canada by this time, community members requested the provincial government to designate the church as a historic site. The government followed through on September 15, 1974.

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Argyle had a population of 994 living in 398 of its 515 total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:994-1025}}|1025|1}} from its 2016 population of 1,025. With a land area of {{cvt|768.63|km2}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|994|768.63|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000202&geocode=A000246 | title=Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Manitoba | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=February 9, 2022 | accessdate=February 20, 2022}}

• Chris Fridfinnson — ice hockey player, born in Baldur
• Hallgrímur Fr. Hallgrímsson — Icelandic businessman, who went to high school in Baldur.
• Tom Johnson — Hockey Hall of Famer, born in Baldur
• Bill Stilwell — award-winning author and naturalist, born in Baldur

• Walter Clark — politician and farmer, raised and lived in Baldur
• Irving Cleghorn — Scottish-Canadian politician who operated a pharmacy in Baldur prior to taking office
• Donald Craik — provincial cabinet minister, born in Baldur and raised in Greenway
• Ivan Schultz — provincial cabinet minister, born in Baldur
• John A. Mabon — a farmer from Neelin, who served as Reeve of Argyle in 1952 and later unsuccessfully ran as an independent candidate for Mountain in 1953.

• List of francophone communities in Manitoba

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• {{Official website|http://www.rmofargyle.ca/}}
• [http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/municipalities/argyle.shtml Manitoba Historical Society - Rural Municipality of Argyle]
• [http://geodepot.statcan.ca/GeoSearch2006/GeoSearch2006.jsp?resolution=H&lang=E&otherLang=F&census=Yes&DisplayData=Yes&NewImage=yes&layer=csd&IdentName=Argyle%20(RM)&IdentUID=4604057 Map of Argyle R.M. at Statcan]
• [http://www.townofbaldur.ca/index/html/communityprofile.html Baldur - R.M. Profile]

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| Centre = Rural Municipality of Argyle

| Northwest =

| North = Municipality of Glenboro – South Cypress

| Northeast = Rural Municipality of Victoria

| East = Municipality of Lorne

| Southeast = Municipality of Louise

| South = Cartwright – Roblin Municipality

| Southwest =

| West = Rural Municipality of Prairie Lakes

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Argyle

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Category:Populated places in Pembina Valley Region

Category:Populated places in Westman Region, Manitoba

Category:1881 establishments in Manitoba